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On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:26:39 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I looked at something called ITX but they have only one PCIe slot |
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> usually. That's not enough. I'd like to have two 6 or 8 port SATA |
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> cards. Then balance the drives on each. I think some of the through |
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> put is shared so the more drives on it, the slower it can be. I'd |
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> like to have two such cards. 12 or 16 drives should be enough to last |
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> a while. Part of me wants to do RAID but not sure about that. Yet. |
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> I think I'm just going to go with ATX since it has several PCIe |
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> slots. |
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Usually, an ITX mainboard will feature a PCIe slot /and/ additional |
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onboard SATA connectors. So you might be fine with an 8port controller |
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card and the onboard connections. |
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However, even if you want 16 SATA connections on one PCIe card, you can |
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buy that. Broadcom SAS 9201-16i is one example. If that is enough |
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bandwidth-wise will depend on your PCIe slot and the drives you're |
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going to attach. |
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I don't see any reason to do hardware raid these days, just a HBA and |
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software raid (zfs or other solutions) should be fine. |
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Everything just my 2¢ here, of course... |
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